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This is the 10th year I’ve hosted a neighborhood cookie party. It’s one of my favorite Christmas traditions. Everyone brings cookies and their recipe, we talk, eat, enjoy the evening and go home with a yummy assortment. Here’s the recipes for the treats that were brought this year.

This past week, the kids and hubby put together the menu and did the shopping since I was out of town over the weekend. Apologies for the lack of links, it was all pretty basic. Here’s what they came up with:

We love chili and this is a great bean-free, paleo-friendly recipe. I first discovered it on the Functional Foodie website, but it appears her site is no longer live, so I guess it’s time to share my version. I’ve made this recipe many times on the stovetop, but now that I have an InstantPot, I like using that. Below, I share both conventional and pressure cooker versions of this recipe.

Pat stew meat dry. Season with salt & pepper. Heat a dutch oven or large cooking pot to medium/high heat. Sear stew meat in pan — you don’t need to cook it all the way through, but do want to brown all the outside edges. Remove meat from pot.

Brown ground beef while stew meat cools. When ground beef is fully cooked through, remove from pan. Optionally, you can drain excess water and fat at this point.

If needed, add up to 1 tablespoon of oil to the pot and add your onions, peppers and seasonings – minus the garlic.

Saute veggies for a couple of minutes, then add garlic and cook for ~1 minute, then add tomato paste and stir to combine.

Add chicken broth, stew meat and ground beef to the pot with the veggies, then add diced tomatoes and stir everything to combine.

Simmer for ~30 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings if needed.

InstantPot / Pressure Cooker Directions

Pat stew meat dry. Season with salt & pepper. Set InstantPot to saute function, add stew meat and sear outside edges — you don’t need to cook it all the way through. Do in batches if it doesn’t all fit. Remove meat from pot.

Brown ground beef in InstantPot while stew meat cools. When ground beef is fully cooked through, remove from pan. Optionally, you can drain excess water and fat at this point.

Pat stew meat dry. Season with salt & pepper. Heat a dutch oven or large cooking pot to medium/high heat. Sear stew meat in pan — you don’t need to cook it all the way through, but do want to brown all the outside edges. Remove meat from pot.

Brown ground beef while stew meat cools. When ground beef is fully cooked through, remove from pan. Optionally, you can drain excess water and fat at this point.

If needed, add up to 1 tablespoon of oil to the pot and add your onions, peppers and seasonings – minus the garlic.

Saute veggies for a couple of minutes, then add garlic and cook for ~1 minute, then add tomato paste and stir to combine.

Add chicken broth, stew meat and ground beef to the pot with the veggies, then add diced tomatoes and stir everything to combine.

Simmer for ~30 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings if needed.

InstantPot / Pressure Cooker Directions

Pat stew meat dry. Season with salt & pepper. Set InstantPot to saute function, add stew meat and sear outside edges — you don’t need to cook it all the way through. Do in batches if it doesn’t all fit. Remove meat from pot.

Brown ground beef in InstantPot while stew meat cools. When ground beef is fully cooked through, remove from pan. Optionally, you can drain excess water and fat at this point.